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Rawal, Kala Bahadur
Shetty, Vijith
Mateti, Uday Venkat https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8149-2067
Shetty, Shraddha
Shastry, C. S.
Joel, Juno J.
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Received: 25 February 2026
Accepted: 19 June 2026
First Online: 25 June 2026
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study obtained ethical approval from the Central Ethics Committee of Nitte (Deemed to be University) (Ref. No.: NU/CEC/2022/344). And this study was registered in the Clinical Trial Registry of India (Ref. No.: CTRI/2021/08/035818, dated on 19/08/2021). Voluntary written informed consent was obtained from patients or their caretakers before they were enrolled in the study. This study was performed in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the institutional ethical standards.
